Upgrades communicators to NanoUI, adds a new EPv2 fake networking system, adds new semi-telecomms machine, lets communicators call ghosts, call other communicators, and have as many ghosts or communicators linked as the user desires. Adds preference option to remain invisible on communicator device searches.

2026-08-22 11:38:12 +01:00 · 2015-12-14 15:43:53 -05:00
parent 3376f9702f
commit 3e5436c4b7
20 changed files with 1271 additions and 213 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/communicators
+	name = "Communicators"
+	sort_order = 4
+
+/datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/communicators/load_preferences(var/savefile/S)
+	S["communicator_visibility"]	>> pref.communicator_visibility
+
+
+/datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/communicators/save_preferences(var/savefile/S)
+	S["communicator_visibility"]	<< pref.communicator_visibility
+
+
+/datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/communicators/sanitize_preferences()
+	pref.communicator_visibility	= sanitize_integer(pref.communicator_visibility, 0, 1, initial(pref.communicator_visibility))
+
+/datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/communicators/content(var/mob/user)
+	. += "<b>Communicator Identity:</b><br>"
+	. += "Visibility: <a href='?src=\ref[src];toggle_comm_visibility=1'><b>[(pref.communicator_visibility) ? "Yes" : "No"]</b></a><br>"
+
+/datum/category_item/player_setup_item/player_global/communicators/OnTopic(var/href,var/list/href_list, var/mob/user)
+	if(href_list["toggle_comm_visibility"])
+		if(CanUseTopic(user))
+			pref.communicator_visibility = !pref.communicator_visibility
+			return TOPIC_REFRESH
+
+	return ..()
@@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ datum/preferences
 	// OOC Metadata:
 	var/metadata = ""

+	// Communicator identity data
+	var/communicator_visibility = 0
+
 	var/client/client = null

 	var/datum/category_collection/player_setup_collection/player_setup
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@
 /datum/event/communications_blackout/start()
 	for(var/obj/machinery/telecomms/T in telecomms_list)
 		T.emp_act(1)
+	for(var/obj/machinery/exonet_node/N in machines)
+		N.emp_act(1)
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 	endWhen = 36000
 	var/last_spam_time = 0
 	var/obj/machinery/message_server/useMS
+	var/obj/machinery/exonet_node/node

 /datum/event/pda_spam/setup()
 	last_spam_time = world.time
@@ -19,6 +20,11 @@
 		//if there's no spam managed to get to receiver for five minutes, give up
 		kill()
 		return
+	if(!node)
+		node = get_exonet_node()
+
+	if(!node || !node.on || !node.allow_external_PDAs)
+		return

 	if(!useMS || !useMS.active)
 		useMS = null
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/obj/item/device/communicator
+	description_info = "This device allows someone to speak to another player sourced from the observer pool, as well as other communicators linked to it.  \
+	To use the device, use it in your hand, and it will open an interface with various buttons.  Near the bottom will be a list of devices currently available \
+	for you to call, both from communications on the station, and communicators very far away (observers).  To call someone, send a communications request to \
+	someone and hope they respond, or receive one yourself and respond to them.  Hanging up is also simple, and is handled in the 'Manage Connections' tab."
+
+	description_fluff = "As a concept, a device that allows long-distance communication has existed for over five hundred years.  A device that can accomplish \
+	that while in space, across star systems, and that the consumer can afford and use without training, is much more recent, and is thanks to the backbone \
+	that is the Exonet.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	The Exonet is the predominant interstellar telecom system, servicing trillions of devices across a large portion of human-controlled space.  \
+	It is distributed by a massive network of telecommunication satellites, some privately owned and others owned by the systems’ local governments, \
+	that utilize FTL technologies to bounce data between satellites at speeds that would not be possible at sub-light technology.  This communicator \
+	uses a protocol called Exonet Protocol Version 2, generally shortened to EPv2.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	EPv2 is the most common communications protocol in the Exonet, and was specifically designed for it.  It was designed to facilitate communication \
+	between any device in a star system, and have the ability to forward interstellar requests at the root node of that system’s Exonet.  \
+	It is also built to cope with the reality that the numerous nodes in a system will likely have frequent outages.  The protocol allows for \
+	up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 unique addresses, one of which is assigned to this device."
+
+	description_antag = "Electromagnetic pulses will cause the device to disconnect all linked communicators.  Turning off the Exonet node at the Telecomms \
+	satellite will also accomplish this, but for all communicators on and near the station.  This may be needed to allow for a quiet kill or capture."
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+//This is not strictly a telecomms machine but conceptually it is.
+/obj/machinery/exonet_node
+	description_info = "This machine is needed for several machines back at the colony to interact with systems beyond this region of space, such as \
+	communicators, external PDA messages, and even newscaster units, which host their content externally.  You can fiddle with the device with \
+	just your hands, due to the integrated monitor and keyboard.  Synthetic units can interface with it as well, just like most other machines."
+
+	description_fluff = "This is one of many nodes that make up the Exonet, which services trillions of devices across space.  This particular node \
+	is referred to as a terminal node, servicing the Northern Star.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	In the beginning of humanity's ascend into space, the Exonet didn't exist.  Instead, the Exonet is the evolution to a network called the Interplanetary \
+	Internet (sometimes referred to as the InterPlaNet), which was conceived and developed due to the limitations of the terrestrial Internet, mainly because \
+	the IP protocol was unsuitable for long range communications in space, due to the massive delays associated with lightspeed being unable to overcome \
+	the massive distances between planets in a timely manner.  It was a store-and-forward network of smaller internets, distributed between various nodes, \
+	and was designed to be error, fault, and delay tolerant.  The first nodes were put into space around the time when colonization had begun, to service humanity’s \
+	close holdings, such as Luna and Mars.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	By 2104, the Interplanetary Internet had coverage within most of Sol, but the network of networks were limited by the speed of light, and due \
+	to orbital mechanics, the delay for a request to be processed could vary.  As an example, a direct message from Mars to Earth could take anywhere \
+	between three to twenty two minutes to get to Earth, and then the same amount of time to return to Mars.  Coverage was also spotty due to the \
+	nature of operating at such vast distances.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	Fortunately, a method for traveling faster than light was discovered, which could allow data to be transmitted beyond the speed of light, \
+	and thus overcome the limitations of the Interplanetary Internet.  One by one, each of the nodes were upgraded to utilize cutting edge \
+	(at the time) FTL technologies to rapidly increase response time.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	Once humanity had send colonists out beyond Sol, to other star systems such as Sirius and Alpha Centauri, they required their own interplanetary \
+	internet, so a new protocol had to be created, and another hardware upgrade for the separate interplanetary internets.  The end result allowed \
+	communications between Sol and the various exosolar systems, and was dubbed the Exonet.  It remains the most common way for consumers to engage \
+	in long range communications across planets and star systems.  Generally, each system has their own Exonet, which is connected to all the other \
+	Exonets at the root node(s), and is typically arranged in a tree structure.  The root node(s) are generally government-owned and are very secure \
+	and resilient to failure.<br>\
+	<br>\
+	This node is privately owned and maintained by Nanotrasen, and allows the colonists of the Northern Star to have access to the Exonet."
+
+	description_antag = "An EMP will disable this device for a short period of time.  A longer downage can be achieved by turning it off, or rigging \
+	the APC it uses to turn off remotely, such as with a signaler in the right wire."
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 //A very, very simple mob that exists inside other objects to talk and has zero influence on the world.
 /mob/living/voice
-	name = "unknown"
+	name = "unknown person"
 	desc = "How are you examining me?"
-//	default_language = "Galactic Common"
+	see_invisible = SEE_INVISIBLE_LIVING
 	var/obj/item/device/communicator/comm = null

 	emote_type = 2 //This lets them emote through containers.  The communicator has a image feed of the person calling them so...
-	var/stable_connection = 0 //If set to zero, makes the mob effectively deaf, mute, and blind, due to interferance.
-

 /mob/living/voice/New(loc)
 	add_language("Galactic Common")
@@ -20,11 +18,15 @@
 		comm = loc
 	..()

+// Proc: transfer_identity()
+// Parameters: 1 (speaker - the mob (usually an observer) to copy information from)
+// Description: Copies the mob's icons, overlays, TOD, gender, currently loaded character slot, and languages, to src.
 /mob/living/voice/proc/transfer_identity(mob/speaker)
 	if(ismob(speaker))
 		icon = speaker.icon
 		icon_state = speaker.icon_state
 		overlays = speaker.overlays
+		timeofdeath = speaker.timeofdeath

 		alpha = 127 //Maybe we'll have hologram calls later.
 		if(speaker.client && speaker.client.prefs)
@@ -36,6 +38,9 @@
 			for(var/language in p.alternate_languages)
 				add_language(language)

+// Proc: Login()
+// Parameters: None
+// Description: Adds a static overlay to the client's screen.
 /mob/living/voice/Login()
 	var/obj/screen/static_effect = new() //Since what the player sees is essentially a video feed, from a vast distance away, the view isn't going to be perfect.
 	static_effect.screen_loc = ui_entire_screen
@@ -44,10 +49,23 @@
 	static_effect.mouse_opacity = 0 //So the static doesn't get in the way of clicking.
 	client.screen.Add(static_effect)

+// Proc: Destroy()
+// Parameters: None
+// Description: Removes reference to the communicator, so it can qdel() successfully.
 /mob/living/voice/Destroy()
 	comm = null
 	..()

+// Proc: ghostize()
+// Parameters: None
+// Description: Sets a timeofdeath variable, to fix the free respawn bug.
+/mob/living/voice/ghostize()
+	timeofdeath = world.time
+	. = ..()
+
+// Verb: hang_up()
+// Parameters: None
+// Description: Disconnects the voice mob from the communicator.
 /mob/living/voice/verb/hang_up()
 	set name = "Hang Up"
 	set category = "Communicator"
@@ -55,40 +73,53 @@
 	set src = usr

 	if(comm)
-		comm.close_connection(src, "[src] hung up")
+		comm.close_connection(user = src, target = src, reason = "[src] hung up")
 	else
 		src << "You appear to not be inside a communicator.  This is a bug and you should report it."

+// Verb: change_name()
+// Parameters: None
+// Description: Allows the voice mob to change their name, assuming it is valid.
+/mob/living/voice/verb/change_name()
+	set name = "Change Name"
+	set category = "Communicator"
+	set desc = "Changes your name."
+	set src = usr
+
+	var/new_name = sanitizeSafe(input(src, "Who would you like to be now?", "Communicator", src.client.prefs.real_name)  as text, MAX_NAME_LEN)
+	if(new_name)
+		if(comm)
+			comm.visible_message("<span class='notice'>\icon[comm] [src.name] has left, and now you see [new_name].</span>")
+		//Do a bit of logging in-case anyone tries to impersonate other characters for whatever reason.
+		var/msg = "[src.client.key] ([src]) has changed their communicator identity's name to [new_name]."
+		message_admins(msg)
+		log_game(msg)
+		src.name = new_name
+	else
+		src << "<span class='warning'>Invalid name.  Rejected.</span>"
+
+// Proc: Life()
+// Parameters: None
+// Description: Checks the active variable on the Exonet node, and kills the mob if it goes down or stops existing.
 /mob/living/voice/Life()
-	if(comm && comm.server && !comm.server.active)
-		comm.close_connection(src,"Connection to telecommunications array timed out")
+	if(comm)
+		if(!comm.node || !comm.node.on || !comm.node.allow_external_communicators)
+			comm.close_connection(user = src, target = src, reason = "Connection to telecommunications array timed out")
 	..()

+// Proc: say()
+// Parameters: 4 (generic say() arguments)
+// Description: Adds a speech bubble to the communicator device, then calls ..() to do the real work.
 /mob/living/voice/say(var/message, var/datum/language/speaking = null, var/verb="says", var/alt_name="")
-//	world << "say() was called.  Arguments: ([message], [speaking], [verb], [alt_name])."
-	if(!stable_connection)
-		return 0
-
 	//Speech bubbles.
 	if(comm)
 		var/speech_bubble_test = say_test(message)
-		var/image/speech_bubble = image('icons/mob/talk.dmi',src,"h[speech_bubble_test]")
+		var/image/speech_bubble = image('icons/mob/talk.dmi',comm,"h[speech_bubble_test]")
 		spawn(30)
 			qdel(speech_bubble)

-		for(var/mob/M in hearers(world.view,comm)) //simplifed since it's just a speech bubble
+		for(var/mob/M in hearers(comm)) //simplifed since it's just a speech bubble
 			M << speech_bubble
 		src << speech_bubble

-	..(message, speaking, verb, alt_name) //mob/living/say() can do the actual talking.
-/*
-/mob/verb/test_voice_mob()
-	set name = "Make Voice Mob"
-	set category = "Debug"
-	set desc = "For testing only!"
-	set src = usr
-
-	var/turf/T = get_turf(src)
-	var/obj/item/device/communicator/comm = new(T)
-	comm.open_connection(src, src)
-*/
+	..(message, speaking, verb, alt_name) //mob/living/say() can do the actual talking.
@@ -1215,6 +1215,13 @@ CIRCUITS BELOW
 	build_path = /obj/item/weapon/circuitboard/telecomms/receiver
 	sort_string = "PAAAG"

+/datum/design/circuit/tcom/exonet_node
+	name = "exonet node"
+	id = "tcom-exonet_node"
+	req_tech = list(TECH_DATA = 5, TECH_ENGINEERING = 5, TECH_BLUESPACE = 4)
+	build_path = /obj/item/weapon/circuitboard/telecomms/broadcaster
+	sort_string = "PAAAH"
+
 /datum/design/circuit/shield
 	req_tech = list(TECH_BLUESPACE = 4, TECH_PHORON = 3)
 	materials = list("glass" = 2000, "gold" = 1000)